Why Jeans?

Map of Genoa
Map of Genoa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fade February Fact #18:

The word ‘jeans’ is derived from the French phrase ‘bleu de Genes’ . The literal translation for that is ‘the blue of Genoa’, and with time was shortened to what we now know as ‘jeans’! Now you know ‘why jeans?’.